Fine Art is an exciting course which offers extensive opportunities for students to think creatively and explore their ideas through specialist materials and processes of making. The course requires students to test and reflect on their thinking whilst expressing themselves visually through new methods of making, as well as more traditional approaches. Students have the opportunity to use a broad and exciting range of specialist equipment and processes, which include large printing presses for etching and collagraph, a screen-printing transfer bed, ceramic and cold glass fusing facilities, large format digital cameras and an Adana letterpress printer. Other facilities include a large darkroom and purpose-built ceramics room. The A Level syllabus is designed to encompass principal areas for critical, practical and theoretical coverage of art, craft and design. These focus on the qualities of academic observation, analytical understanding, practical experimentation, research and individual expression. These are incorporated within assessment objectives which include: recording experiences and observations, exploring and analysing sources, documenting independent judgments, using knowledge and\ understanding of the work of others to extend thinking inform work and explore ideas using a broad range of media and techniques.
Cambridge currently requires a minimum of A Level grades of A*AA for all Arts courses and Psychological and Behavioural Sciences, and A*A*A for all Science courses, Computer Science and Economics. Irrespective of course, the standard IB requirement is 40-42 points, including 776 in the three Higher Level subjects. In practice, however, higher (or lower) offers are sometimes made to both A Level and IB students; these are decided on an individual basis.
The A Level syllabus is made up of two separate modules: ● A Personal Creative Enquiry (60% of qualification). ● Externally Set Assignment (40% of qualification). The Personal Study is made up of two integrated constituent parts: ● A critical, practical and theoretical project/portfolio with outcomes based on themes and subject matter that has personal significance. ● A written element of 1000 words minimum extended writing, which will contain images and texts and relate to the practical and theoretical work. Externally Set Assignment also consists of two parts: ● Supporting studies/preparatory work. ● 15 hours of sustained focus work; the resolution of the learner’s ideas from the preparatory work. Using the assessment objectives, the preparatory studies and sustained focus work will be assessed together, in the first instance by your teacher, and then also by an external moderator.
About Education Provider
| Region | London |
| Local Authority | Hammersmith and Fulham |
| Ofsted Rating | |
| Gender Type | Girls |
| ISI Report | View Report |
| Boarding Fee | Unknown |
| Sixth Form Fee | £26,831 |
| Address | Iffley Road, Hammersmith, London, W6 0PG |
Fine Art is an exciting course which offers extensive opportunities for students to think creatively and explore their ideas through specialist materials and processes of making. The course requires students to test and reflect on their thinking whilst expressing themselves visually through new methods of making, as well as more traditional approaches. Students have the opportunity to use a broad and exciting range of specialist equipment and processes, which include large printing presses for etching and collagraph, a screen-printing transfer bed, ceramic and cold glass fusing facilities, large format digital cameras and an Adana letterpress printer. Other facilities include a large darkroom and purpose-built ceramics room. The A Level syllabus is designed to encompass principal areas for critical, practical and theoretical coverage of art, craft and design. These focus on the qualities of academic observation, analytical understanding, practical experimentation, research and individual expression. These are incorporated within assessment objectives which include: recording experiences and observations, exploring and analysing sources, documenting independent judgments, using knowledge and\ understanding of the work of others to extend thinking inform work and explore ideas using a broad range of media and techniques.
Cambridge currently requires a minimum of A Level grades of A*AA for all Arts courses and Psychological and Behavioural Sciences, and A*A*A for all Science courses, Computer Science and Economics. Irrespective of course, the standard IB requirement is 40-42 points, including 776 in the three Higher Level subjects. In practice, however, higher (or lower) offers are sometimes made to both A Level and IB students; these are decided on an individual basis.
The A Level syllabus is made up of two separate modules: ● A Personal Creative Enquiry (60% of qualification). ● Externally Set Assignment (40% of qualification). The Personal Study is made up of two integrated constituent parts: ● A critical, practical and theoretical project/portfolio with outcomes based on themes and subject matter that has personal significance. ● A written element of 1000 words minimum extended writing, which will contain images and texts and relate to the practical and theoretical work. Externally Set Assignment also consists of two parts: ● Supporting studies/preparatory work. ● 15 hours of sustained focus work; the resolution of the learner’s ideas from the preparatory work. Using the assessment objectives, the preparatory studies and sustained focus work will be assessed together, in the first instance by your teacher, and then also by an external moderator.
